Toys, coats, reported missing by Connecticut nonprofit

Published 4:30 am, Wednesday, December 23, 2015

NEW HAVEN (AP) -- New Haven police are investigating the disappearance of toys and coats meant for underprivileged children from a community nonprofit that shares a building also used as a police substation.

Metashar Dillon, president of Kingdom International Economic Development Corp., tells the New Haven Register the toys and coats went missing sometime after 2 a.m. Saturday.

She estimated the value of the missing items at thousands of dollars and says they were going to help about 3,000 New Haven families.

The toys and coats were being held in a community room.

Dillon said chairs in the room had been set up in a circle, as if someone had held a meeting there.

Lt. Sam Brown said police are investigating the apparent theft and that several other community organizations use the building.